Researchers discover why an aging brain is prone to distraction
(NEWSER) - Science has found clues to why older people tend to lose their train of thought so easily: Slower internal brain communications are behind those misplaced names, words, keys, and other “senior moments,” the Wall Street Journal reports. A 200-millisecond difference in an older person’s ability to quickly tune out extraneous information is enough to prevent the making or retrieval of a memory, Berkeley scientists found. More»
